Air Force One: Republic of Brokers

The Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency has called on President Yudhoyono to cancel the purchase a $58 million private presidential plane – to be called Indonesian Air Force One – saying the country is already sinking in a mire of foreign debt, which by the first quarter of 2011 had reached $214.5 billion, a $10 billion increase on last yea

Someone must be held responsible! You take the blame... Yes of course Sir. I’ll give the answers (a play on the words ber-tanggung-jawab, men-[t]anggung and men-jawab).

1st Man: Incidents keep recurring, wisdom is still being sought.

2nd Man: But wisdom isn’t really part of the election campaign is it?

1st Man: We’ll just cheat a bit the spare parts... to minimise the budget you understand.

2nd Man: But isn’t that dangerous?

1st Man: At worst it might break down.

2nd Man: Good thing it’s not a plane.

Man: It sank over there, why are you looking here?

Man with torch: Divine wisdom...

Madiun – As many as 200 pedicab drivers together with members of the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) held a demonstration in the East Java city of Madiun on Monday April 23.